Scores of needy throng Masari’s home for assistance

Indigent residents on Saturday, thronged the Kafur country home of Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, looking for favours from him and his family.

The people started trooping to the house as early as 7am before the commencement of the election.

Security personnel had hectic time controlling the crowd as many pleaded to be allowed in, to either see the governor or any of his wives.

The governor was able to attend to many of them however when he came out of the building to vote few minutes to 11am.

Meanwhile, the Governorship and the state House of Assembly elections were generally peaceful in the state with large turnout of voters for the exercise.

Governor Masari also expressed satisfaction with the voters’ turnout for the elections.

He told journalists shortly after casting his vote at 10.54am at Masari’s 001 polling unit in Kafur that reports reaching him from across the state indicated that the elections were generally peaceful.

He said, “Although I cannot use my own polling centre to judge generally, what I have seen at the centre and reports reaching me from across the state, indicate impressive turnout of voters while the election was generally peaceful.”

The head of voter education and publicity in Katsina office of Independent National Electoral Commission, Muhammed Takai, said there were no hitches in all the polling centres he visited at Kafur, Malumfashi, Matazu and Charanchi.

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